Born in 1952, Prof. Karger studied the philosophy of consciousness for her doctorate and qualified with Max Bense in 1986 in questions of the theory and application of semio-morpho-genetic transformations in Nature, genetics, and culture.
Prof. Karger was appointed in March 2005 to teach scientific foundations of design, design theory, history of design and media.
She is a reader in the theory of science at the Institute for the Philosophy of Technology at the University of Stuttgart. She holds guest professorships at the Universities of Freiburg, Osnabruck, the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Darmstadt, and is a guest lecturer at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart, the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Pforzheim, the Hochschule für Druck und Medien in Stuttgart, The Merz Akademie, and other schools. She has spent ten years as an advisor and consultant to industry, architectural and design offices.
Her areas of specialization include the theory of science, philosophy of technology, process-oriented design theory, aesthetics, communication sciences, ethics, semiotics and logic, philosophical anthropology, transdisciplinary questions of innovation and creativity research such as the relationships between nanotechnology, life sciences, and computer sciences.
angelika.karger@hfg-gmuend.de
